Soft fold collar



April 21, 1925.

W. BARKER, JR,

SOFT FOLD COLLAR Filed Aug. 16, 1921 yliiar'neyy Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM BARKER, JR., OF TRQY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO LION COLLARS & SHIRTS,

PATENT OFFICE.

INC., A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SOFT FOLD COLLAR.

Application filed August 16, 1921. Serial No. 492,779.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLL-iii BARKER, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Soft Fold Collars, of which the following is a specification.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

This invention is applicable to collars of various kinds, and is more particularly applicable to soft fold-collars.

The principal object of the invention is to obtain the advantages due to making the band and the folded-over top of a fold-collar principally of an integral piece of heavy or multiply fabric, while obtaining at the same time the nicety of finish and appearance of a collar made of a plurality of plies in the ordinary manner.

Other objects of the invention will appear in connection with the following description.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a front View in perspective of a fold-collar embodying myinvention with one of the corner portions of the folded-over top bent back to show the facing strip.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the collar opened out fiat.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same taken on the broken line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Fig. l is a cross-section of the same taken on the broken line 4-4 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the same taken on the broken line 5-5 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a plan View of the blank from which the facing strip is formed.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1 is the band-portion, and 2 is the top portion of the collar.

In making the collar I make the band portion, 1, and top portion, 2, integral, cutting the same from a heavy single ply fabric or a multiply fabric.

The blank thus cut is sufliciently larger than the finished collar to permit the edge portion to be inturned as shown at 3, and this inturned edge portion may be secured to the body portion of the collar in any known manner.

At each end of the collar, 1 apply a facing strip, 4, extending along and covering the outer surface of the end of the band member, 1, and what is the inner surface of the neighboring end of the top, 2, when the top is folded over.

This facing strip has its outer end edges inturned and secured by stitching, 5, to the corresponding inturned edge portions of the end of the band and end of the top.

The collar thus presents along its ends the appearance of a collar made up of a plurality of plies of fabric in the manner in which collars have been heretofore coinmonly made.

For certain purposes of the invention it is immaterial whether the facing strip, 4;, is made of a single thickness of fabric or of two or more thicknesses of fabric. I prefer however, to make it of two thicknesses of fabric, cutting the strip in the form shown in Fig. 6, and folding it along its vertical middle line, whereby it presents a folded edge, 6, along its inner side as shown.

lVhenthus made it is not necessary to stitch the inner edge ofthe facing strip to the body of the collar, although this may be done if desired as by stitching 7.

Where the inturned edges, 3, are not covered by the facing strips, 4:, they may be finished in any known manner to present a sightly appearance and prevent the edges from raveling. I

I have shown the inturned edge portions, 3, thus finished by covering them by a stitched binding, 8, which may be an ordipzliry overedge-stitching, cat-stitching or the My improved collar has practically all of theadvantages of a collar made from a single piece of very thick or multiply fabric, while it has the same appearance where exposed to View in useas a collar made up of a plurality of plies in the customary manner. For example,-the tab ends of the collar where exposed to view in use show only the facing strip, 4, and the ends of the folded-over top where exposed to view in use, even though the ends be bulged outwardly by the necktie, present only the sightly appearance of a collar made of a plurality of plies in the customary manner, due to the presence of the facing strip, t.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A fold-collar the body portion of which comprises a band and a folded-over top formed of a ,ont-inuous piece of fabric with inturned end edges, and having a continuous facing strip extending transversely of the band and top at an end of the collar covering the outer surface of the end of the band and the inner surface of the neighboringend of the top, the edge of said facing strip being inturned and stitched to the inturned end edges of the band and top.

2. A fold-collar the body portion of which comprises a band and a folded-over top formed of a continuous piece of fabric with inturned end edges, and having a continuous facing strip extending transversely of the band and top at each end of the collar covering the outer surface of the endof the band and the inner surface of the neighboring end of the top, the edge of said facing strip being inturned and stitched to the inturned end edges of the band and top, the edge portions of the collar Where not stitched to said facing strips being covered by a stitched binding.

A fold-collar the body portion of which comprises a band and a foldedover top with inturned end edges, and having a continuous facing strip extending transversely of the band and top at an end of the collar covering the outer surface of the end of the band and the inner surface of the neighboring end of the top, the edge of said facing strip being inturned and stitched to the inturned end edges of the band and top. w p 5 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of August, 1921.

WiLLIAM BARKER, JR. 

